Kettle whistling, the animated potbelly stove waddled forward on four cast-iron feet.
Anne kicked it to no effect, then ducked a near beheading from whipped stovepipe.
“Careful, you nitwit!” Jessie yelled in flung soot and smoke. “What is this thing?!”
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